College Works Intern, Indianapolis, Indiana

College Works Internship

College Works provides college and university students a unique, life-transforming opportunity to build business management and leadership skills, hands-on. The internship empowers students to run their own local businesses, manage their own crew of people, and provide a much-needed service within their communities while earning money as well as invaluable experience. Interns not only gain valuable work experience but can earn great money to help finance their college education as well.

Primary Job Responsibilities Include:

• Building a marketing plan
• Conducting sales meetings with clients
• Managing small business local PR and social media
• Interviewing and hiring laborers
• Budgeting and cost management
• Customer service and quality control of painting crews

Part time commitment in spring semester and full time in summer. Your primary duty is to sell painting service contracts during the entire season. You will regularly make field sales calls and visits throughout the entire season to potential customers in an effort to obtain sales orders and contracts.

Qualifications:

• Work ethic and accountability
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills
• Resourceful problem solving abilities
• Highly evolved customer service skills
• Professionalism is very important
• Ideally have worked over 30 hours a week in the past 2-3 years of work experience is preferred

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must have a car and valid driver's license

Benefits:

• Team building trips
• Payroll events
• Networking
• Training provided
• Performance bonuses

Pay: Base plus commission. Expected pay range is $6,000 $60,000.

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers to feel and handle, reach with arms and hands, see, talk, and hear. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may incidentally be required to stoop, kneel, and crouch, lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds.

About College Works: College Works provides you with "the outside the classroom" experience you need to find your edge and excel in the business world. The company vision is to deliver a hands-on, world-class, life-changing learning experience about the mechanics of the professional world. With College Works, you can become one of tomorrow's leaders by putting yourself in charge today! The core belief at College Works is that young adults with drive, ambition, and commitment can do amazing things when given the right opportunity, instruction and support. The goal is simple: To provide a life-changing experience to young people who enroll in the student internship program. Thus far, has built one of the largest residential painting companies in the world. The value of the College Works Program is not just about the money you can earn, it's also about the first-hand, real-world experience you will gain by running a business and learning how to lead, how to be a manager and how to be an entrepreneur. Your internship will include comprehensive training and one-on-one work with a mentor. Then, you will launch a marketing program, handle supplies, manage personnel and learn quite a few things about yourself in the process.

VISION: To be the greatest professional learning experience any of our staff ever have. MISSION: Building tomorrow's leaders. At College Works, we celebrate the diversity of our employees and our leadership. College Works Painting is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.